Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-05-02
A Review Of the Situation
by q Newspaper Of
the State.
Cattle Kings Organizing to
Compete with the Ar
mour Company.
The Will of Alexander Mitch
ell, the Late Millionaire,
Made Public.
Alaska News Items-Bay Attacked hy
. chinamAn-A Paying Tsller's De-
feIsney-FAilurs 70 Ideatify-
Little Alma Anhe-Porsiana
Express-aeshanlc Killed.
DrousA ssrlekea Texas.

y Droush STRICKEN TexaA
= GALVESTON, May The Eesss. eom-
! menting UPON the drouth, says; She
4 droath 0f last year and that Of the
present. season are unparalleled Ia en-
9 araEne Northwest Texas ana the extreme
southwest. TheFe have been rains of
late that will prove Of incalcalAhie ken-
efit 30 cattle districts. but the a9Fioal.
: tural distFists pure and simple. except
perpaps q limited portion In Northern
! Texas. ere suffering seriously from want
J OF rain In al that belt Of country b.
tween San Antonta and Austin. from
Auatin 10 Waco, from Waco 10 Bre-
!, monte, and down the Central Railread
20 Houston, and, within the eiroumfor-
. encs described hy this geographical eig.
, Gle, the c0antry s1anda badly In used Of
!, moisture. Oats and small grains within
the district specified are almost total
failure, while the corn that should b
well advanced and II vigorous condition
10 seriously wilted and in bad oonditisR
81 the roota This is the worst feature
Of agricultural affairs in Central and
Southern Taxas. There is time ahead 10
make . cotton crop, although at the
best the cotton crop Ia now bound 10 be
late unless rains come within SIX or
eight days. The Nefn crop In Texas
viii be very much Of failure. So -
rioas is this outlook that the Wholesale
houses are Withdrawing their men from
the road pending solution Of the rain
fall problem"
Organized Cattle kinGa.
DKNvKR, MAY There have been
averal mysterious and secret meetings
Of pFomiRent cattle men In both O0lsrA-
do and New Mexico during the past ten
days. IL is Fumored here tonight that
the purpose Of these meetings has BEEN
20 organizs company TO be known as
the American Cattle Trust Company,
the object OF which will b0 10 fight che
Armour dressed beef syndicate OF Chi
cago. The new syndicate includes Mel
son Morris Of Chicago and many Of lhe
wealthiest cattle owners OF Colorado,
New Mexico and Western Kansas. 10
is claimed that they have paid up capi-
tai Of $4,000 600.
VIII Of the Late Millionaire.
MILWAUKEE,, April &c. Tue will Of the
late Alexander Mitabsli. the tnilllonniro
banker, was made public today. No
approximAtiOu Of the value OF the ea-
tate Ia made, and the terms OF the will
avoid the tliinR Of an Inventory, 80 that
the exact wealth left by Mr.. Mitchell
will never be known. IL h believed 20
S. asfe~- - .ssanss-avf EniiliQna.
~ IuIr 10 tspk 0tsry suss, gssa--- 4. hFsa.Aali
after dsdneting the followinR legaoiee;
Mrs. Martha Mitchell, widow OF the de.
ceased, $200,O00 and the homestead
valued at half q million and $4,000 an
nnally David Mitchell, grandson,
S100, ,Oo0; Mrs. Isabella Mackie Of Mil
vaukee, niece, $4,000; seven bequests
to public charitable institutions, aRgre-
gatiBR $4,000; Jessie Mitchell Of Aber-
deem, Scotland, his sister, 500 year.
The propeEtV known az the Wisconsin
Marine ana Fire Insurance Company's
Bank is divided equally between John
l.. Mitchell. John johnson, bis nephew,
and David Ferguson, bis moss intimate
friend.
Alaska News ISems.
vIcroErA (B. O. May The steamer
Olymeian arrived at Port Towngend
Yesterday morning from Alaska portss
eleven days 10 The round trip.
The April output Of the Treadwell
mine was $4,000. The Indians struck
again for higher pay. All we're ois-
charged and white men are noW en-
ploysd. TneFe Il plenty Of water nov
for the mininR mill.
Manager Trsadwell Il Q passenger for
San Francisco.
The Muir Company Of Boston is pro-
oesdine With the erection Of q mill on
Dougias Islsnd. The BerDer Bay Con-
pany Il also erecting maehineFy sum
cient 70 crush twenty tons daily.
All the whisky sellers WIS we're IN
dlctsd last year are summoned 70 appear
AZ the May Assizss. Attorney 0sn@rel
Garland advised Attorney General BAL
20 this eject
Boy Attacked by n ChiAa@aa.
vIcroEA (B. O.. Msy LA Chinaman
attacked q boy playing sn the strest lass
night and stabbed him IN the baoks pen
eaFstine 20 the spine and causing paEsly-
sis Of the lower limbs.
LsaIe Alma Ashe.
Los ANonLHs, Mag Little Al@4
Aahe IA al the Nadesu House, With Mf1-
Porter Ashe, Mrs. OFockeF and hsF nufse
and the door IL guarded By Dspasy
sheriff. ThsFe ia no truth In the repoFe
that tbs child vas spiFited away.
FaiIuFe 10 Baensify.
BGxEngrrrrD, May 1.--BheFiG Harris,
Of Maya, accompanied By A. J. GrRs1Ts
brother Of Mrs. Lyons. arrived tnle
morning and soon aftefward sn inquess
sheriff testified that. although the 70
ssmblanos 10 Olsen was stFonR. the DE-
ceased vas n0t that individual A. u
trRnspiFed that there was q letteH "a tne
Glenville, IAnina Valley, POst0fDoe, d.
reotsd 70 N. II. Siebert. u waa sens ter
With the boue that it may throw some
light on Who the deeeaSd q. The IN
qaesa vas therefore adjourned Until -
= morrow.
BAM PAAMoTsoo, May l.--OommeaeinR
today an additional train vas pat go
the California and Oregon ROAD. hwih
> be kuOwn ~ the Portland kxpreas
: sill leave every afternoon at o'oloeE-
TIE trip will nov be made In 20 hoars.
Mumbmr 0f EmtGFanta.
IssDoN, May Daring the past
week 15i8 emigrants left Qneenstown
. for Ameriea. The total for the MONTH
Of April ts II, ,s5l against 6656 for ApFu
Of lsst year
: Falssr osBrfen sails fer America.
oCKxs~rown, May i.-Wm. O Brian.
I editor Of Csifed Ireiasa, and O. y. ALI
! bride, one u the tenants eyicieo from
the Landsd0WBe estate. sailed tor NsS
J YOrk todsy. In the eooFse of nis 70
msrks, Mr.. OBrisn said thas he csi-
red Wifh btm tbs full approval OF tns
lrish people. He fslt that when tns
. liberty loving Canadians haafd tEas
saeoabt o. Lord Lap6sdOgns's efaeitses
10 his tsnAnts, they would nos tolefass
their being governed b s1eh 3 man
} LAna and sea RIOeknde.
RoNE, Aay LA AiVioes from Masso-
wah state that Genes ~ BAileta. laailan
Commsndsr there, has pfociaimed
{ land and see blockade.